The Simple Reason Edward Snowden's Leaks Are So Damaging To America's Snooping

REUTERS/Michaela RehleA Eurofighter Typhoon is seen in the middle of a laser show during the presentation and delivery of the 100th Eurofighter to the German airforce at headquarter of Military Air Systems Centre Cassidian in Manching near Ingolstadt, southern Germany, February 28, 2013.

The book highlights why Snowden's revelations are so damaging to Uncle Sam's espionage operations:

"The most closely held secrets by the United States are what we know about everyone else's secrets and how we came to know them. The collection of communications between persons is called signals intelligence, or SIGINT, whether physically (communications intelligence, or COMINT) or electronically (ELINT)."

That's because Snowden knows a lot of what the NSA knows and, crucially, how the world's largest spy agency came to know it.

One thing that is still unknown is how much Snowden has leaked — e.g. What have Chinese and/or Russian intelligence authorities learned from him? — but it's clear that his actions have damaged America's ability to spy on everyone.

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He/She go through all your private stuff looking for dirty secrets about you. He/she monitors your phone calls and internet connection. Then flat out denies any spying at all on you repeated. He/she says 14 times that he/she does not have that capability. After you find out definitive proof that your roommate is spying on you they finally spill the beans... but they justify it with

"Its only for your own protection, i am keeping you safe"
and
"I am not actually reading the data... I am just collecting it encase something happens to you."

My 2 questions for you would be.
1. Would you trust your roommates intentions and let them continue to spy on you?
or
2. Would you say "F you" and move out asap?